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W. H. NORTHALL. BOTTLE GAP.

Pateted Mar. 26, 1895.

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WILLIAM H. NORTHALL, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIRDS TO J. H. POLSDORFER, H. B. POLSDORFER, F. C. POLSDORFER, AND W. H. POLSDORFER, OFASAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-CAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 536,388, dated March 26, 1895.

Application led December 14, 189,4.' Serial No. 531,840. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM II. N ORTHALIJ, a citizen of the'United States, residing in the city of Evansville, county of Vanderburg, and State of Indiana,have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Bottle-Caps, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a cap designed to fit over the top of a bottle and hold the cork in place. 7It is particularly adapted for use in connection with bottles containing aerated liquids, or liquids charged with gas, where there is a pressure from the inside tending to force the cork from the bottle, and, although primarily intended to be used with a thin cork resting partly on top of the bottle, (known in this art as a seal,) it may be used with afull sized cork in the neck ot the bottle.

The object of the invention is to provide a bottle cap which will be at once economical in construction and efficient in service,and which, while capable of being conveniently applied,'may be removed without the useof tools.

The best embodiment of myinvention at present known to me is that shown in the drawings, in which- Figure l represents my improved cap in position on the neck of a bottle. Fig, 2 represents the bottle neck without the cap. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the cap without the tying cord. Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the center of the same; and Fig. 5 is a plan ot' the blank from which the capping portion of the cap is made.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts in each iigure.

The cap is composed ot' a capping portion which fits over the top of a bottle and a tyingcord which serves to hold the same in place. The capping portion, which can be stamped out of a single piece of metal, consists of a plate a having a plurality of legs b and c projecting therefrom. In the cavity of the capping portion is the thin cork or seal g, though the cap could, of course, be used without it for the purpose of holding the regular cork in the neck of the bottle. Before the cap is down the sides of the head d of the bottle and are bent so as to come under a shoulder e, which may be made by a groove in the bottle head as shown. In this position they are held tightly against the head and under the shoulder by the tying-cord f. This tying-cord, which may be a piece of twine or ribbon or wire or any band of suitable llexible material, makes somewhat more than one full turn around the bottle-neck and lies over these legs, somewhat above theirlow'er ends. When in this position the legs c are bent down upon it, as shown in Fig. 1, thus pressing it inward against the bottle neck'and kinking it. This prevents the cord from slipping and obviates the necessity of tying the ends. This bending down of the legs b, upon Athe cord, which is already drawn taught around the legs b, also draws the legs very tightly into place, and thus the cap is very securely held.

In the removal of the cap no tools are necessary. The cap is loosened by simply pulling one end of the tying-cord in a downward direction when it will pass from under the legs c which, being released from under the shoulder e, allow the cap to be readily removed by a slight pull.

To distinguish this application from others which I have made on the same subject matter, I designate this one Case C.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with abottle neck having a shoulder thereon, of a bottle cap consistsame and serving to hold them against the bottle neck, others of said legs lying wholly on the outside of said cord and pressing the roo same inward and farther under the said shoulder whereby the cord is caused to lie in a sinuous line and is thereby prevented from slipping, all constructed and arranged substantially as described and for the purpose speci- 2. The combination with a bottle neck having a groove therein, of a bottle cap consisting of a plate having a plurality ot legs projecting therefrom, some of said legs being formed with depressions thereon adapted to enter the said groove, and a removable tying cord which surrounds the boi t`e neck and lies wholly on the outside of this portion of the legs (the cord lying in the depressions of the said legs), the remainder of the legs being bent down upon the outside of said cord and serving to bend the same inward against the bottom of the said groove and cause it to lie in a snuous line, all operating subtantially in the manner described, whereby the first mentioned set of legs are held against the bottle head by the cord, which latter is held by the second set of legs, for the purpose specilied.

The method, substantially as herein described, of capping a bottle having a shoulder thereon, which consists in placing upon the bottle a'cap formed of a plate having a plurality of legs projecting therefrom, alternate legs being bent down so as to encompass the bottle head and depressions being formed on said alternate legs which lie under saidshoulder, then passing a cord around the bottle neck over the legs so bent down (said cord lying in the said depressions of said legs) and drawing said cord taut whereby the said legs are drawn snugly against the bottle, and then bending down the remaining legs upon the outside of said cord forcing it in against the bottle neck and causing it to lie in a sinuous line.

WILLIAM H. NOR'IHALL. Vitnesses:

Olonne BUCHANAN, J. UPFIELD. 

